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What is the difference in inches between the two least common lengths?
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- 00:03
Okay More shmoop math for aspiring lerner's here Here we
- 00:06
go A scientist is collecting bugs and measures the length
- 00:11
of all his specimens as shown So what's the difference
- 00:14
in inches between the two least common lengths So is
- 00:22
we think through the problem Well that's a whole lot
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- 00:24
of bugs right Well the most important thing to note
- 00:26
here is that the question asked for the difference in
- 00:29
bug links Not the number of bugs themselves were working
- 00:32
with inches here People not insects Will the two least
- 00:36
common sizes are one inch and a third of an
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inch And you know that by looking at these little
- 00:40
red dot thing he's here they each have fewer marks
- 00:43
And the column that represents the bugs that measure two
- 00:45
thirds Well the word difference here means subtraction So remember
- 00:49
that both terms need common denominators for us teo you
- 00:52
know pull this thing off So we just get one
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minus a third which is the same as three thirds
- 00:57
months one third which is two thirds inches You know
- 01:00
what This problem really didn't bug us too much so
- 01:03
yeah the answer's b as in
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